Best External Storage Solution for SOHO Setups?

Posted by Cliff on Friday May 2, 2003 @02:06AM from the gigabytes-for-the-small-or-home-office dept.

terradyn asks: "Recently, I've been looking for a cheap external storage subsystem solution. Aside from the fibre channel high end solutions out there (IBM FastT, HP EVA, etc.), I haven't been able to find much for the SOHO type market. My current best possibility is this. It provides the capacity and interface type I was looking for (8 bay, ATA6, 1394) but lacks features like RAID5 or NAS type abilities. Has anyone found a better solution with at least RAID5 in a similar or smaller form factor for use in the home (I need the space/speed/reliability for video work)?"

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Re:SCSI attached IDE disks by laughing_badger · 2003-05-02 03:05 · Score: 5, Interesting

Toyed with the idea of getting one of these for the office but came to the conclusion that a linux box running hardware RAID from a 3ware controller card was better value. Transtec configured this exactly how I wanted it - I can highly recommend them. The 3ware card is pretty good too.
Oh, to be fair, the default Transtec keyboard sucks.

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